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From
19/08/2015 02:21:41
Lutz Scheffler
Lutz Scheffler Software Ingenieurbüro
Dresden, Germany
 
 
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19/08/2015 02:06:06
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Title:
Re: Syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows Server 2012
Network:
Windows 2008 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
Application:
Web
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01623571
Message ID:
01623572
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101
This message has been marked as the solution to the initial question of the thread.
Ok. Report is not best choice, since this is more a general (VFP independent) style problem. I would have put it under VFP in general. Looks like we have no documentation.

My answer is:
This is completely up to you. What ever any style guide mean, normaly the company creating the rules is not consistent in itself.

I would do

Edit > Preferences… ; Audio > Driver Settings

if Audio / Driver Settings is a menu within preferences.
If this is just something within the form I would do

Edit > Preferences… ; Audio, Driver Settings

Because the > indicates a level inside a menu.
Or I would be more specific like

Go menu Edit > Preferences… select on Page Audio Combobox Driver Settings

to avoid confusion. Because if it confuses me, the reader will be confused as well.

Lutz
>I don't know whether I have selected the appropriate category - I shall see by the responses:
>
>Would any of you know the correct way to indicate a path in a manual explaining a computer menu?
>
>In the following example, "Preferences" opens a new window. How should this be written?
>(This is the way I have always done it, and I just found out it is wrong):
>
>Edit > Preferences > Audio > Driver Settings
>
>I should be using an ellipsis to indicate that a window will open.
>
>Edit > Preferences…, Audio > Driver Settings
>
>My question is, do I put a comma after the "...", and do I then put another ">".
>
>For example:
>
>Edit > Preferences…, > Audio > Driver Settings
>
>or do I just put no comma at all:
>
>Edit > Preferences… Audio > Driver Settings
>
>Thanks for any help you can provide.
>K
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